Microstigmatidae is a small family of spiders with about 25 described species in eight genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use of silk. The family was removed from the family Dipluridae in 1981. The subfamily Pseudonemesiinae from the family Ctenizidae was also transferred into the Microstigmatidae. Genera , the World Spider Catalog recognized the following genera: Angka Raven & Schwendinger, 1995 Envia Ott & Höfer, 2003 Ixamatus Simon, 1887 Kiama Main & Mascord, 1969 Micromygale Platnick & Forster, 1982 Microstigmata Strand, 1932 Ministigmata Raven & Platnick, 1981 Pseudonemesia Caporiacco, 1955 Spelocteniza Gertsch, 1982 Tonton Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 Xamiatus Raven, 1981 Xenonemesia Goloboff, 1989 References Notes Bibliography Ott, R. & Höfer, H. (2003). Envia garciai, a new genus and species of mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Microstigmatidae) from Brazilian Amazonia. - Iheringia 93: 373-379. PDF Indicatti, Rafael P.; Lucas, Sylvia M.; Ott, Ricardo & Brescovit, Antonio D. (2008): Litter dwelling mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Microstigmatidae, Nemesiidae) from Araucaria forests in southern Brazil, with the description of five new species. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25(3): 529-546. Mygalomorphae families Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Roewer